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Warming Affects Trees, Streams in West

By PAUL FOY, Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment
(AP) -- Around the same time the American West started heating up five years ago, Colorado started losing its lodgepole pine forests to a beetle infestation.



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Posted by wfl 03/28/08 12:54
Rank: 5/5 after 1 vote
I suspect that the red and
brown lodgepole pines are dead or dying from mountain pine beetle infestations.
As usual weather and climate
effects are confused in this
article. tree blooming and early snow melt
are due to local weather not climate change.
 

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